Mobile IT Education?

SickKiwi asks: "A client, a local polytechnic, has recently asked me to come up with plans for a mobile IT bus to bring technology to rural areas. I would love to find out what other people in the field have come up with in the way of workstation layout, OS choices and Internet connectivity. There doesn't appear to be a huge amount of material available but as the technology gets smaller, mobile classrooms become more and more practical." What vehicles would work best for this kind of application? A converted bus? A mobile home? An 18-wheeler with a heavily customized trailer? What kind of hardware would you put in it?

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Dont need no education.

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm a hax0r with a first post.

Mobile troll education...?

[Trolligula]

The last few months I have been doing some research into the trolling phenomenon on slashdot.org. In order to do this as thoroughly as possible, I have written both normal and troll posts, 1st posts, etc., both logged in and anonymously, and I have found these rather shocking results:

• More moderator points are being used to mod posts down than up. Furthermore, when modding a post up, every moderator seems to follow previous moderators in their choices, even when it's not a particularly interesting or clever post. There are a LOT more +5 posts than +3 or +4.
• Logged in people are modded down faster than anonymous cowards. Presumably these Nazi Moderators think it's more important to burn a user's existing karma, to silence that individual for the future, than to use the moderation system for what it's meant for : identifying "good" and "bad" posts (Notice how nearly all oppressive governments in the past and present do the same thing : marking individuals as bad and untrustworthy because they have conflicting opinions, instead of engaging in a public discussion about these opinions)
• Once you have a karma of -4 or -5, your posts have a score of -1 by default. When this is the case, no-one bothers to mod you down anymore. This means a logged in user can keep on trolling as much as he (or she) likes, without risking a ban to post on slashdot. When trolling as an anonymous user, every post starts at score 0, and you will be modded down to -1 ON EVERY POST. When you are modded down a certain number of times in 24 hour, you cannot post anymore from your current IP for a day or so. So, for successful trolling, ALWAYS log in.
• A lot of the modded down posts are actually quite clever , funny , etc., and they are only modded down because they are offtopic. Now, on a news site like slashdot, where the number of different topics of discussion can be counted on 1 hand, I must say I quite like the distraction these posts offer. But no, when the topic is yet another minor version change of the Linux kernel, they only expect ooohs and aaahs about this great feat of engineering. Look at the moderation done in this thread to see what I mean.
• Digging deep into the history of slashdot, I found this poll, which clearly indicates the vast majority does NOT want the moderation we have here today. 'nuff said.

Feel free to use this information to your advantage. I thank you for your time.

Re:Mobile troll education...?

[Anonymous Coward]

U R A TOOL.

Re:Mobile troll education...?

[doooras]

do you post this in every thread? i am getting pretty tired of seeing it. if you think slashdot moderation is really that bad, the best thing for you to do is go somewhere else. it is very irritating reading something by some disgruntled poster who thinks someone cares what he has to say. the internet is a big place, go somewhere else.

Re:Mobile troll education...?

[Anonymous Coward]

Why don't you take your right hand, reach under your legs, make a fist and, with an upward motion, insert it up your anus. Maybe that will get you pretty high and you won't mind about pretty tiresome threads.

Join the fight

Re:Mobile troll education...?

[TrollBridge]

Let's not forget about the evils of replying to a post modded "Offtopic". Chances are that if a parent is modded down, any replies under it will likely be modded down as well.

Re:Mobile troll education...?

[Anonymous Coward]

If you post this message repeatedly, people will react just as they react to spam. They'll be very annoyed and turn against you. Instead put a link to the strange thread in your sig, and post interesting comments, on topic, with that sig.

A link in your sig like this.

Re:Mobile troll education...?

[baronben]

Agreed. It was interesting at first, even though it was off topic in the first place, but at least the first time I saw it was vaguly interesting. But when you place it in every thread, you lose any authoirty you once had. If you want to get your point accross, document your research and make a web page or put it in your jounal.

first post

[Anonymous Coward]

editors should not be allowed to moderate more than once per post!

Better than Slashdot: #@ +1 ; Against us @#

[Anonymous Coward]

try a search on www.google.com

Thanks in advance and have a Jon_Katz-free weekend.

Re:Modified school bus

[mengel]

So far this sounds like the most constructive
suggestion. You might add a projection tube
and a pull-down screen for a presenter station
at the back of the bus, and put the seats in
backwards...

If you're in an area with relatively
good line
of sight to some central
landmark, you could possibly set up
some seriously fun packet radio or
point-to-point 802.11 network feeds.

There are some past articles like
this one that mention point to point
solutions, and places like
this and
this
that have antenna designs for 802.11
that go a pretty good distance...

Re:OS Choices?

[Anonymous Coward]

No... You're definently a dumbass.

Re:What about Michael Knight

[Anonymous Coward]

da da, da da, da da

kit, I need help